Fernando, Mike (Private b.1949)

Place Asia: Vietnam, Vung Tau Special Zone, Vung Tau
Accession Number PR91/180
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 folder
Object type Papers
Maker Fernando, Mike
Date made 1971-1984
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 91/0812
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

Photocopy of Mike Fernando's 1984 handwritten account of his national service experiences in Vietnam. He describes his call up, the Save Our Sons Movement picketing the Marrickville Recruit Centre, his initial training, jungle training at Canungra, American GIs on R & R, his arrival in Vietnam as a replacement orderly, the Arnold Club, Vung Tau, hostility of locals after announcement of Australian withdrawal.